Eileen Atkins
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Diana Rigg: the husky voiced, leather-clad star who made England hip
- TV, Radio, Web
- September 10, 2020, 17:40
Dame Diana Rigg, who died on Tuesday aged 82, will have long known that all her obituarists would find space for Mrs Emma Peel in their opening p(...)

TV comfort culture: Feeding viewers period dramas since the 1960s
- Culture
- August 28, 2020, 05:00
Cult enthusiasms don’t come any more niche than that for the UK Independent’s television listings of All Creatures Great and Small during the lat(...)

Vita & Virginia: A tale of literary lovers fails to make waves
- Film
- July 5, 2019, 05:00
Here we have a film torn between brave experiment and on-after-Lovejoy heritage telly. The source material gestures in the safer direction. Chanya But(...)

Oscars 2019: My money’s on Lady Gaga and ‘A Star Is Born’
- Film
- September 17, 2018
It was a very special edition of Toronto International Film Festival for the Irish director Carmel Winters. At the screening of Float Like a Butterfly(...)

Michael Moore blasts Trump in new Fahrenheit 11/9 documentary
- Film
- September 14, 2018
It seems as if we’ve been complaining about Michael Moore preaching to the converted since he turned up to pester Benedict Arnold for betraying the Re(...)

On TV this weekend: Ethan Hawke, Gino D’Acampo and Tracey Ullman
- TV, Radio, Web
- June 1, 2018, 06:30
The Graham Norton Show Friday, BBC One, 23.05pm The guests on Graham’s sofa are Ethan Hawke, who stars in First Reformed, Toni Collette, starring in(...)

Magic in the Moonlight review: Woody does it again – unfortunately
- Film
- September 19, 2014, 00:00
It’s 1928 and the master illusionist Wei Ling Soo enjoys an international reputation as a disappearer of elephants and debunker of mystics. Followi(...)

Colin Farrell: “Lothario! There’s a nice word for a slut. Imagine what they’d say if I was a woman”
- Film
- November 22, 2013, 00:00
‘I’ve been at home in Los Angeles for the past two months with nothing on but the two kids,” says Colin Farrell as he stretches into his chair. “He(...)